Genealogy Chat

Thanks everyone

Looking at the original of the census I'm sure it says solderer at Bovril Company.

British Rations `1880-1918.

The first product was obtained through the Bovril Company of London. Consisted of a metal or waxed fiberboard tube partitioned in the middle.

The metal version generally had a soldered on cap at both ends which was removed via a peel away metal strip ( similar to turn-key ham tins)

It says "solderer - at Bovril Company" and Tin Cans is written above.

Rose

Got to agree with SHRat description

Class: RG13; Piece: 1629; Folio: 78; Page: 30

Her name is Clara Howard YOB 1882. Shes living in Walthamstow,

I think you could be right about the Bovril Company; they were located in London at the time. Thinking about the confusion between S and L in old writing, if the Bovril Co had their own laundry for workers' overalls could that first word be "Laundress"?
But as mgnv says, if you can point us at the actual census record we can see what we think it is.

If you gave enough info such that anyone could find this census page, I'm sure folk here would take a look at the original and see what they thought it said.

Hi just found the transcript and they lived in Walthamstow and the end reads ....at Bovril coy, but cant make out the first word it looks like soldier but obviously isn't. Thank you for making me rethink! I would still have been scratching my head

Have you got the census original or the transcript? "Coy" was a common abbreviation for "company", particularly in a military rather than a civilian context. If you've only got a transcript it could be that the transcriber couldn't read the first word but thought it looked like "soldier", particularly with the "coy" at the end.
A common confusion in deciphering old writing is between capital S and L. Could that first word begin with L and be something to do with a job at the Bovril company? You don't say where she was living.

Can anybody please tell me what they think this means its on the 1901 census as a 19yr old girls occupation, she is single and living at home. I've googled it and got the history of Bovril!